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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth
Procedure comes a searing and provocative new thriller that
hurtles from a Mississippi killing field to a harrowing confrontation
atop the Statue of Liberty to a high-tech laboratory where human
experiments take on a terrifying reality...and of the three live
caught in the crossfire:
A street-smart detective who seeks revenge against the man who
brutally murdered his father...
A brilliant scientist who is on the verge of a neurological breakthrough
that will alter the very nature of who we think we are...
A beautiful woman loved and pursued by them both who lies in
a coma and is given one last, desperate chance at life...
It has been twenty years since Nat Hennessy watched a street
thug beat his father to death. All those years haven't dimmed
Nat's memory or satisfied his hunger for justice. When a routine
homicide investigation unexpectedly leads to an opportunity to
avenge the murder, the NYPD detective does not hesitate to act
-- but only at enormous risk to himself and the woman he loves.
Dr. Cush Walker lives with the childhood memory of watching the
Ku Klux Klan lynch his father. A pioneering brain surgeon, Walker
has dedicated his life to perfecting a breakthrough medical procedure
designed to eradicate the kind of hatred that caused his father's
death -- but with dangerous consequences to his patients and himself.
Camilla Bisonette is brought to the doctor's clinic barely clinging
to life. Now Nat Hennessy's fiancee -- but once romantically linked
to Cush Walker -- she might be saved, but only if Walker stretches
his ethics and medical expertise to the breaking point -- and
only if he joins forces with his bitter rival, Nat Hennessy.
From an explosive secret that stretches back more than a half
a century to the mysteries of memory locked away in the human
brain...from the impulses and passions that drive us to acts of
rage to the shattered lives we leave behind. Stan Pottinger weaves
an unrelentingly suspenseful novel of deception, murder, love,
and science rapidly spinning out of control.
"Pottinger proves he is a master of the art of the medical thriller
and a formidable voice in examining American race relations....
this kaleidoscopic thriller is marvelously complex, charged with
emotional impact and resounding ethical questions."
- Publishers Weekly
"A Slow Burning is a shake, rattle, and roll dance with danger.
The plot is a lightning jolt of tension, expertly pitting a scientist
playing God games in the lab with a determined cop on an elusive
hunt and a lone woman clinging to a life fast slipping away. The
action is nonstop, the dialogue is sharp, fresh, and real, and the
story rushes by at a marathon runner's pace. A Slow Burning is
the perfect hot read for a cold winter's night."
- Lorenzo Carcaterra,
author of Sleepers and Apaches
"Pottinger's clear, crisp prose does just that, steadily building tension in
every subplot. That means once you're 50 pages in, don't expect to put this
one down. Like Cook, Pottinger is able to describe complex medical procedures
in layman's language, making the book refreshingly free of scientific
technobabble. 'A Slow Burning' is a quickly burning fire of a story that you
won't be able to extinguish until the last page."
- New York Post
